The ecological approach to visual perception /

This is a book about how we see: the environment around us (its surfaces, their layout, and their colors and textures); where we are in the environment; whether or not we are moving and, if we are, where we are going; what things are good for; how to do things (to thread a needle or drive an automob...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gibson, James J (James Jerome), 1904-1979
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hillsdale, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1986
Series:Resources for ecological psychology
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